GHC 8.8.1 and cabal-install 3.0 not compatible with ghc-pkg

Tue Oct 8 00:44:43 UTC 2019

Unfortunately ghc 8.8.1 and cabal-install 3.0 are not compatible with
ghc-pkg as documented in
https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/6262#issuecomment-538850477. As
Daniel Grober wrote there:

I think this is expected behaviour, at least from the cabal side of things.
Version 3.0.0.0 switched to using v2-build by default so installed
libraries are now registered into the "default" package environment file in
.ghc/*/environments/default as well as a package-db in
.cabal/store/ghc-*/package.db which GHC doesn't know about by itself.

AFAICS ghc-pkg simply doesn't have support for listing package environments
which sort of kind of makes sense but also breaks this workflow. I think
this should be reported as a GHC bug but I'm not sure it would even be a
good idea to add pkg-env support to ghc-pkg.

I thought this might be a ghc issue but since nobody else was complaining I
assumed I must have done something wrong. Should I file a ghc bug ?

Thanks
George

On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 6:20 PM George Colpitts <george.colpitts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for everybody's responses. I figured out that the following
>
> cabal-install users should note that cabal-install-3.0 or later is
> required for use with GHC 8.8.
>
>
> means  I should have cabal-install-3.0 before installing 8.8.1. Once I did
> that everything is fine.
>
> Maybe configure should give an error if the user does not
> have cabal-install-3.0?
>
> Thanks
> George
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 1:48 PM Shayne Fletcher <shayne.fletcher at daml.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I got there by doing,
>> ```
>>   cabal v2-install --installdir=~/.cabal/bin alex
>>   cabal v2-install --installdir=~/.cabal/bin happy
>> ```
>> and things seemed to be going smoothly enough after that.
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 12:08 PM Carter Schonwald <
>> carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> V1 or v2 install?
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 11:42 AM George Colpitts <
>>> george.colpitts at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> https://www.haskell.org/ghc/blog/20190825-ghc-8.8.1-released.html says
>>>>
>>>> cabal-install users should note that cabal-install-3.0 or later is
>>>> required for use with GHC 8.8.
>>>>
>>>> but this seems wrong or have I done something wrong?
>>>>
>>>> $ cabal install cabal-install
>>>> cabal install cabal-install
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> Resolving dependencies...
>>>> cabal: Could not resolve dependencies:
>>>> [__0] trying: cabal-install-3.0.0.0 (user goal)
>>>> [__1] next goal: time (dependency of cabal-install)
>>>> [__1] rejecting: time-1.9.3/installed-1.9... (conflict: cabal-install =>
>>>> base>=4.8 && <4.13, time => base==4.13.0.0/installed-4.1...)
>>>> [__1] trying: time-1.9.3
>>>> [__2] next goal: stm (dependency of cabal-install)
>>>> [__2] rejecting: stm-2.5.0.0/installed-2.5... (conflict: cabal-install
>>>> =>
>>>> base>=4.8 && <4.13, stm => base==4.13.0.0/installed-4.1...)
>>>> [__2] trying: stm-2.5.0.0
>>>> [__3] next goal: process (dependency of cabal-install)
>>>> [__3] rejecting: process-1.6.5.1/installed-1.6... (conflict:
>>>> cabal-install =>
>>>> base>=4.8 && <4.13, process => base==4.13.0.0/installed-4.1...)
>>>> [__3] trying: process-1.6.5.1
>>>> [__4] next goal: pretty (dependency of cabal-install)
>>>> [__4] rejecting: pretty-1.1.3.6/installed-1.1... (conflict:
>>>> cabal-install =>
>>>> base>=4.8 && <4.13, pretty => base==4.13.0.0/installed-4.1...)
>>>> [__4] trying: pretty-1.1.3.6
>>>> [__5] next goal: network (dependency of cabal-install)
>>>> [__5] rejecting: network-3.1.0.1/installed-CeX... (conflict:
>>>> cabal-install =>
>>>> base>=4.8 && <4.13, network => base==4.13.0.0/installed-4.1...)
>>>> [__5] trying: network-3.1.0.1
>>>> [__6] trying: hackage-security-0.5.3.0 (dependency of cabal-install)
>>>> [__7] next goal: template-haskell (dependency of hackage-security)
>>>> [__7] rejecting: template-haskell-2.15.0.0/installed-2.1... (conflict:
>>>> cabal-install => base>=4.8 && <4.13, template-haskell =>
>>>> base==4.13.0.0/installed-4.1...)
>>>> [__7] rejecting: template-haskell-2.15.0.0, template-haskell-2.14.0.0,
>>>> template-haskell-2.13.0.0, template-haskell-2.12.0.0,
>>>> template-haskell-2.11.1.0, template-haskell-2.11.0.0,
>>>> template-haskell-2.10.0.0, template-haskell-2.9.0.0,
>>>> template-haskell-2.8.0.0,
>>>> template-haskell-2.7.0.0, template-haskell-2.6.0.0,
>>>> template-haskell-2.5.0.0,
>>>> template-haskell-2.4.0.1, template-haskell-2.4.0.0,
>>>> template-haskell-2.3.0.1,
>>>> template-haskell-2.3.0.0, template-haskell-2.2.0.0 (constraint from
>>>> non-upgradeable package requires installed instance)
>>>> [__7] fail (backjumping, conflict set: cabal-install, hackage-security,
>>>> template-haskell)
>>>> After searching the rest of the dependency tree exhaustively, these
>>>> were the
>>>> goals I've had most trouble fulfilling: base, cabal-install, directory,
>>>> template-haskell, process, time, network, pretty, hackage-security,
>>>> deepseq,
>>>> HTTP, stm, cabal-install:lib
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 6:25 AM Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> The GHC team is pleased to announce the release candidate for GHC
>>>>> 8.8.1.
>>>>> The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation are
>>>>> available at
>>>>>
>>>>>     https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.8.1
>>>>>
>>>>> This release is the culmination of over 3000 commits by over one
>>>>> hundred
>>>>> contributors and has several new features and numerous bug fixes
>>>>> relative to GHC 8.6:
>>>>>
>>>>>  * Visible kind applications are now supported (GHC Proposal #15)
>>>>>
>>>>>  * Profiling now works correctly on 64-bit Windows (although still may
>>>>>    be problematic on 32-bit Windows due to platform limitations; see
>>>>>    #15934)
>>>>>
>>>>>  * A new code layout algorithm for amd64's native code generator
>>>>>    significantly improving the runtime performance of some kernels
>>>>>
>>>>>  * The introduction of a late lambda-lifting pass which may reduce
>>>>>    allocations significantly for some programs.
>>>>>
>>>>>  * Further work on Trees That Grow, enabling improved code re-use of
>>>>> the
>>>>>    Haskell AST in tooling
>>>>>
>>>>>  * Users can write `forall` in more contexts (GHC Proposal #7)
>>>>>
>>>>>  * The pattern-match checker is now more precise in the presence of
>>>>>    strict fields with uninhabited types.
>>>>>
>>>>>  * A comprehensive audit of GHC's memory ordering barriers has been
>>>>>    performed, resulting in a number of fixes that should significantly
>>>>>    improve the reliability of programs on architectures with
>>>>>    weakly-ordered memory models (e.g. PowerPC, many ARM and AArch64
>>>>>    implementations).
>>>>>
>>>>>  * A long-standing linker limitation rendering GHCi unusable with
>>>>>    projects with cyclic symbol dependencies has been fixed (#13786)
>>>>>
>>>>>  * Further work on the Hadrian build system
>>>>>
>>>>>  * Countless miscellaneous bug-fixes
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately, due to a build issue (#17108) found late in the release
>>>>> process
>>>>> i386 Windows builds are currently unavailable. These will be provided
>>>>> in
>>>>> the coming weeks.
>>>>>
>>>>> As always, if anything looks amiss do let us know.
>>>>>
>>>>> Happy compiling!
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> - Ben
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> [1]
>>>>> https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.8.1/docs/html/users_guide/8.8.1-notes.html
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